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    @Whos on first....
    Hey ABBOTT! Bombay Sapphire....a straw will do.... I'll bring the women.... We got to right this ship tho.... Cuz...New Orleans is Sinkin' and I don't wanna swim.... .......I don't know, third base? Lions, and Tigers and Bears....oh my....hey where's Dorothy the meek....jumped ship with Pugsley? Now I'm pooped.....
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    Gergelis, you crack me up everyday. My office neighbors must hear my laughing through the walls. Well, quite a few of we biologists are GD lovers so they understand. They know I'm cracked. LOL! Yah, we all need some flexibility and knowing that we all are doing the best that we can as we travel through this land. Like I eluded to yesterday, some sweet Viking mamas or Egyptian goddesses might delay my arrival to said picnic. I did a Google ruler measurement. It's between 0.5-0.6 miles from the museum to the super secret picnic location. Watch out for them teddy bears trying to get on the dus.
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    @all of the above...and the below....
    ba dus is on autopilot and will stop for stray cats, dogs and heads... appreciate the well wishes Totes, and hope you're correct... re. High noon....time is relative and always has been, Totes, Lainie Bear and I will be at the museum in the morning....and after pic a nic.... However we need a window of arrival time, to expect every camper to be there for a photo op at exactly high noon is risky at best....and lacks necessary wiggle room and fluidity.... busy city busy weekend and people from all over....walking, biking, cabbing, ubering, crawling and limping there... Provided tickets are in hand Elaine and I will be there....Scott and Rosalie are a lock.... Hey look it's Brian Setzer....gotta slow down....hop on...there's a seat next to Fester....grab some coffee... you got something to say? The floor is all yours..... Well, we're having a ball just a-bopping on the big dance floor Well, there's a real square cat, he looks a 1974 Well-ell, he looked at me once, he looked at me twice Look at me again and there's a-gonna be fight We're gonna rock this town We're gonna rip this place apart We're gonna rock this town Rock it inside out We're gonna rock this town Make 'em scream and shout Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock We're gonna rock till we pop We're gonna rock till we drop We're gonna rock this town Rock this place apart after reading back the lyrics...not the best choice of song...let's try Stray Cat Shuffle....it's the bees knees....
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    @FLATTERED YOU ARE CONCERNED WITH MY SCHEDULE
    FONTS, AS SHARED EARLIER TODAY, THE DUS BRIVER HAS MEDICINE THAT CAN REMEDY THAT. I SUGGEST YOU RELAX, ENJOY YOUR OWN RIDE AND EASE OFF THE MICROMANAGEMENT PEDAL. THIS DUS HAS A BRIVER.
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    Simply making sure, Kyle, that you don't miss out on our already calendared Pic-A-Nic and M&G and group picture at our designated spot at Grant Park at high noon on Saturday 7/4. Capice?
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    I see no conflict anywhere fonts. Explain? There is a reason there is "important" information there. Read it again. Stay positive and see the forest through the trees. This forum is for sharing info for planning. Stick it, in an email update if you wish to.
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    Field Museum Important Info for Saturday
    Am I allowed to leave The Field Museum and come back later? Yes, if you come back on the same day and have your tickets handy. So you can leave the museum, make the Pik-A-Nik for lunch, and return to the Museum if so your pleasure tends. I am geeky, so I will be at the museum most of the morning, picnicteer, then return to the museum for some jazzy Dead and Archive/ GDTS exhibit. It's all in the same area (museum is about 1/2 mile from the picnic). For those that missed the ticket link yesterday, there is a link to the event below. Everything is Dead at The Field Museum All The Years Combine: Deadhead Treasures From The Grateful Dead Archive & GDTS Too Drawing on the extensive collection of the band’s own archive, All The Years Combine: Deadhead Treasures From The Grateful Dead Archive & GDTS Too features material from every part of the Grateful Dead’s career that document the special bond between the Grateful Dead family and their family of fans. Visitors will have the opportunity to see band and fan correspondence, decorated ticket request envelopes, newsletters, drawings, posters, tickets, backstage passes, and fan-made concert tapes. Jazz & Colors: Wave That Flag July 4, 12:30pm – 3pm, performances throughout the Museum, included with admission Following the success of Jazz & Colors in New York’s Central Park and Jazz & Colors: The Masterworks Edition at the acclaimed Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jazz & Colors comes to Chicago’s Field Museum with a more focused and intimate experience. Jazz & Colors: Wave That Flag will feature local jazz musicians performing in various parts of the Museum taking on the songbook of the Grateful Dead for two sets of music on Saturday, July 4th. Jazz & Colors is a co-production of The Field Museum and the promoters and performers of Fare Thee Well. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/programs/everything-dead-field-…
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    Thanks, Totes - this is awesome information. Only caution is our Pic-A-Nic and group photo op is Saturday, July 4th at nigh noon. We want to make sure all our peeps are at our meeting spot in Grant Park for that. Also, is there a direct link you can share on how to get to the specific information of this event? Looks like awesome fun...thanks !!
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    Submit your FTW necessities for the list! -water bottle -sunscreen - chargers -cash -bubbles, beach balls, balloons, face paint , temporary tattoos, confetti -sunglasses -some surprises -lanyard for GDTS Tix -travel size booze for jazz Colors at the Field Museum -harmonica -frisbee - sunshine dreamers t-shirt -spreadhseets for effigee -source of fire -tickets put in carry on, taped to an inside super secret pocket -party hat for the 4th of July -camera to capture eagles filling the sky -casting searchlight -rain poncho (it never rains on the 4th of July, the sun always shines) -tin foil hat -frankincense -transporter beam -re-entry blanket -oranges for the dus -invisibility cloak -aspirin -walking shoes so I don’t get the walkin’ blues -smiles -band aids -coozy -GD50 clear plastic bag (for Santa Clara) or sensible holder of stuff (for Chicago)
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    said tyhe cat in the hat in the back.... Fine job of steering da dus, rgrrrgrr, and taking those curves at just the right speed. Tis quite a shiny badge you've got there... I like the steelie face logo and Captain Rich tag. Anyone catch the Smithsonian Channel's Aerial America last night? It featured Illinois, and had several majestic aerial flights over Chicago. I was hoping they would fly over Buckingham Fountain, and sure enough they did...the area for our meet-up just to the SE of the fountain loomed right up large in my screen. The trees looked a bit shaggy, the lawn green, and my heart skipped a beat at the vision of deadheads everywhere converging on that area in a couple of short weeks....here is the link, etc: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/aerial-america/illinois/701/340… As we get closer to our destinations...rggrrgr promised to drive a bit more slowly (right!) or at least slow enough for the deadheads along the way to get on...as we approach California, there may be a sea of people around us...make sure you wave and say high to them... Matter of fact, practice smiling and greeting your neighbors today, here on this ride, at home in your hood, and elsewhere as the opportunities arise. You never know who is needing that special twinkle and smile and you may have one at the perfect time. Make a difference today friends if you can, and if that isn't in the cards, help someone who is. To each and all, the skies are yellow and the sun is blue...I hear music around the next bend...how 'bout some cookies and milk everyone. geolikescookiesandmilkandmusicandsmilesandwavesandpeacemeister
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What you talking about Willis? I say.....Damn son....quite the accomplishment....
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Just demonstrating my nonpareil focus! ;-)
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did someone say Chocolate ??
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I'm chock full of confection!
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'o nuts? OK, now I really do have to go find some chocolate. Tough road -- there is danger in learning to appreciate fine chocolate, sorta like good wine. Impossible to go back to the plebian, when you get used to good stuff.
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The dark stuff (w/out nuts) is my fancy, but it's not the most patrician chocolate. Good for the heart, though. OK, I gotta get back to work before I end up separated from my gainful employment. Peace out, Daydreamers!
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.....this is some mindful communication here..... Back to the mines for me..... Work blows kids.....
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I know....
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OMG THE BEST !!! They make a killer chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie too !! But the ultimate are the GS Thin Mints, out of the freezer, w/ a tall glass of milk - SEE YA LATER !!! :-)
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just has some with cold milk...mmmm
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Thursday here, sun is rising in the east... Hot coffee and cocoa ready... Today marks the anniversary of the first of the 3 back to back to back Dead shows in 1977....my personal faves of that Spring run.... Boston Cornell and Buffalo.... Amazing playing and great memories.... Have a great day...make someone happy...
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Cannot put any cookie above the noble Oreo. Good morning to all. Up and running to enjoy my midweek day off. I broke my phone yesterday, so much gone, how can I have become so reliant on these fragile things? 7 days till Dear Jerry! Pails and snails..
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Last night and I brought home some peanut butter and birthday cake Oreos. O-r-e-o. Yum. Especially the birthday cake flavor me thinks. Did you know those cookies are vegan?! You don't have to feel so bad for those folks. Good morning! Have a great day!! Okay goodnight.
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Literally impossible come think of it cause the mighty Oreo is the cat's meow as well. And Milano's and a ton of others... God bless the cookie :-) And God bless the Grateful Dead !! G'mornin peeps - where's our boy and his rails, pails and sails???
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Reese's Peanut Butter Oreos.... mmmmmmmbop bop .....bop bop
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Rise and Shine Sunshine Daydreamers. Patch those sails and shine those rails! Only 7 weeks, 2 days, and 11 hours until the boys in stage at Santa's sisters. Only 8 weeks, 1 days, and 12 hours until the big shebang in Chicago. mmm bop, bop one - mmm, bop, bop - two - slurp coffee, mmm, bop, bop, three
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I had to stop at three. I'll try four tomorrow.
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A bit early to bop til you drop...isn't it?
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...sounds like breakfast!! OMG, could those be even half as good as they sound? I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Oreos, but I'm on the hunt! Have a lovely day, all!
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I like the half golden and half chocolate oreos. Happy Thursday everyone, hope it turns out to be a grand one.
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We don't need no stinking tradition....Reese's Oreos on the shopping list for the pic a nic.... It's like a tastebud orgasm... Bestest Oreo ever....add some French vanilla ice cream... Have a great day Katwoman.... Morning Mr Mayor...
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Break out your brooms. Cleaning up tonight. 2030 local.
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GO HAWKS !! Gotta admit, the best sweater in the business.
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Pat Kane for Stanley Cup MVP perhaps..... If you guys win the cup, Pat comes home with it to West Seneca NY for us to touch it..... Go Hawks.... Have some coffee and Reeses Oreo's your tastebuds with thank you..... Oooohhhhhhhyeahhhhhhhhjhjayyyahhhhhhhh! Damn those Oreos are tasty... Bringing them to the pic a nic....
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Never heard of Reeses Oreos and I'm a big fan of both Reeses and Oreos... re: Hawks - If your Cup is full may it be again.
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was that Donna after an Oreo?
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Mad Swan, I broke my phone yesterday as well. The screen at least. Oh, well, such is life when you forget that picking up that piece of litter means that gravity will induce a separation between phone and pocket. One man gathers what another man spills. Errrrg, sounds like you and Reese's Oreo need to get a room! You know this space is getting hot. I never knew tastebuds had such vast capabilities.... Have a grate day everyone!
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That was me doing my best Donna while eating an Oreo ..... In 2 part harmony..... ;-) Morning Loblaw....
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...my bet is Lord Stanley's chalice will grace at least one of the shows. Watching it show up all over town was one of the fun-nest parts of the Hawks win. Hey, does anyone remember the year of the giant inflatable purple dinosaur? What about the "unbroken paper chain" that got passed from one side of the Horizon to the other?
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Buff is the same...Hawks won, Kane brought it to Buffalo for a week, at baseball games, malls, bars....what an incredible experience....as our Sabres blow for lack of a more descriptive term, hockey wise I live vicariously thru our homeboy #88.....
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Cookies are in my top 5 desert island foods. I thought it would be fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies (maybe oatmeal chocolate chip - hold the raisins please), but I might include ALL cookies so that ALL Oreo flavors and maybe some Pepperidge Farm might be included. Kristine - YES. Any kind of peanut-butter related Oreo sounds like breakfast. My tutu (grandmother in Hawaii) and I had been known from time to time to enjoy a nice moist piece of chocolate cake for breakfast there in paradise. All - there exist both peanut butter AND Reeses peanut butter Oreos. The Reese ones are among the limited edition, such as are the Red Velvet Cake ones... peanut butter > Reese peanut butter ones. Birthday cake flavor > peanut butter. Red Velvet = birthday cake (maybe birthday cake slightly better than Red Velvet). Klang I will have to try the half and halfsies. I have not tried the mint or the (lemon?) yellow ones yet. Anyone? Okay. I have some strange strains of OCD, but you still love me. xo Stellz
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Good morning....glad you chimed in on Oreos ....while none are indeed considered bad ....skip the mint n lemon....red velvet however float my boat....can't speak on the black n white though...not much of a risk taker here...
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But of course we love you, Stella - what a post....FANTASTIC !!
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all cookies, all the time! I'll take the homemade oatmeal-pecan-chocolate chip with dried sour cherries for $250, Alex! I dreamed of Dastardly Mash again last night.
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And just coming off if dinner and ready for dessert, the oatmeal-pecan CC cookie, dare ai say ala mode with a little Bryers vanilla bean is a home run !! So is it "PEE-can?" Or "Pa-Cahn?" Here in the south of course, home of Pecan Pie, it's "PEE-CAN" :-)
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peh-khans, if you please. And, double what the recipe calls for.
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Y'all have done it to me now. I couldn't just get the coffee from Starbucks this afternoon. No, I felt strangely compelled to see if there were any CHOCOLATE COOKIE treats. Found one--they call it "flourless" but it tasted just fine to me. They looked at me funny when I tried to order a Reese's Oreo cookie, though.
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Please ....No more peeing in cans, on Kane's...#88 might get upset....and the Hawks need to sweep... or on Cain's....nuff said there... But especially not on my Reese's Oreo's..... this is our bus...lets preserve its integrity....and cleanliness.... Watch out where the huskies go...and don't you eat that Yellow Snow..... don't know bout you guys but 81 degrees in da Buff at 7:45 pm est..... This space is getting hot....
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I have one seat, Section 311, Row 8, seat 7 (see seat geek for virtual view) for the 4th of July in Chicago. Interested in a floor ticket or two seats at Santa Clara for Saturday the 27th lytweaver at gmail
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....cuz I can party late...... Another week has gone by.... Summer weather has hit Buffalo.... Coffee is on.... Here comes the weekend..... How bout them Hawks.... Oh yeah....some new tangled fancy schmancy website.... Thanks Zeke, Lisa and the crew responsible.... Getting too old for this stuff.... #88 got another goal and an assist! Brooms away....getting ready to move on! Hey Totes....wake up....
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What happen to our daily count down missing it but it is just just 49 days 21 hours till I hit the friendly skies for the golden coast , I might have to sneak some chocolate chips cookies on board for the late night cravings
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Cobwebs this morning. Make that coffee a double. Your hometown prodigy always brings it in the post season. Great game. Crazy finish.
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Bom-bom-bom, bom-bom I can now hear the distance drumming calling me home to FTW. 7 weeks 1 day, 10 hours until Santa Clara! 8 weeks, 0 days, and 11 hours to Chicago! The energy slowly builds....... Can't wait. Have a Grate weekend!
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Oh you crazy money-focused Deadheads you. Personally, I wouldn't have thought it. At least they're not bankers. Not that I have an opinion on that.